Hit The Streets 152: Q&A

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In this Episode…

Valérie and guest co-host Jens Krauer answer the following listener questions

From Pia Parolin: “Once I know how to see, what do I do with my pictures? Once I built up a serious project, how can I best present it, which options are there, which are the advantages/disadvantages, what is easy and what is difficult, …? I think about exhibitions, books, competitions, festivals, but also new ideas like the murals by JR”

@street_life_art "I am looking for project ideas during my 12 month sabbatical next year. Any good advice on how to go about brainstorming ideas?"

Guest co-host: Jens Krauer

Jens Krauer is a passionate street and documentary photographer based in Zürich Switzerland. Official Fujifilm X-Photographer, workshop leader and vinyl collector with a strong background in urban culture and street art.

Links

 www.urbanframes.net

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011468868019

And the Winner is...

Jens selected this photo & story by Michael J Hoffman as the winner of the last photo challenge; Environmental portrait with a short story

Gentleman. Soldier. Poet. Husband. Illustrator. Father. Painter. Friend.

There are so many ways to describe David Boyer. David has served his community and his country in the United States Army. He has deployed to combat zones, and has returned home to northeastern Pennsylvania to fight the other battle that many returning soldiers and service men and women must fight - the physical and emotional scars inflicted by war.

David is not negative or bitter. He embraces each new day as an opportunity to connect with people in a way that is old-fashioned, but not dated. David draws and paints and writes stirring poems; we frequently exchange handwritten correspondence through the mail. He appreciates life and the beauty around him. David eschews the constant upheaval of the daily news cycle.

David is an "old soul" with a taste and sensibility toward a vintage style and countenance. He is a throwback to a bygone era. David embodies the values of another time, but does so in a way that is more reverential than melancholic.

There are many ways to describe David Boyer, and all of them good. I am proud to call David my friend. Among all the labels that could be attributed to David, perhaps none is more fitting than this:

Creative.

submitted by: Michael J Hoffman, Delta, Pennsylvania, USA.

New Challenge: Humor

To participate listen to the tips in this episode and upload 1 photo in the comment section below by Feb. 6.

Book Pick

The Urban Prisoner by Matt Weber

Hit The Streets 151: Gordon Laing Is In The House!

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In This Episode…

It's a yearly tradition! I invited gear guru and all-around awesome guy, Gordon Laing, back on the show to answer your gear and technical questions.

Questions Gordon Answers:

From Stewart Chambers via the FB Group
Does the plethora of post processing options mean we're spending less time thinking about the image because we can always fix it later?

From Mike0725 via FB Group
Recently there was a rumor that Olympus was on shaky financial ground. Apparently the entire industry is on shaky ground and Sony owns almost half the market share for new camera sales. What do you think this means for the future of photography? Will we all be shooting Sony some day?

From @geetee1972 via Instagram
Other than determining the resolution of a digital file, what else is affected by the size of the pixel?
What would you rather work with, a big sensor with fewer pixels or a smaller sensor with more pixels?

From @frenchy_val via Instagram
I bought a Fuji XT30 a few months ago. I really love this camera, it's perfect except the Q button location. I always press it.

Gordon’s Bio

Gordon Laing is the Editor of cameralabs.com and author of 'In Camera', a book that embraces the art of JPEG photography with no post-processing. A journalist of over 25 years and keen photographer since childhood, he loves food and travel and shares his personal work @cameralabs on Instagram and Twitter. Check out his gear reviews at cameralabs.com, on YouTube or in the Cameralabs Photography Podcast at iTunes.

Links to Gordon’s Work

Camera Labs | In Camera Book | Podcast | Instagram | Twitter

Hit The Streets 150: About Teaching, Ethics, Vision And More With Valerie

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In this Episode…

In this episode, the tables are turned and Valerie Jardin is being interviewed by Alec Hosterman on her teaching philosophy, ethics as a street photographer, and much more.

Valérie's bio

Valérie Jardin is a French photographer, currently residing in the United States. She is self-taught and, after working as a commercial photographer for many years, she now dedicates her time to educating others all over the world during workshops, conferences and exhibits.

Valérie has also written several books about visual storytelling as well as hundreds of articles. She also produces her own weekly podcast titled Hit The Streets with Valérie Jardin. She lives and breathes photography.

Links to Valérie’s Work

www.valeriejardin.com

www.instagram.com/valeriejardin

Alec's bio

By day, Alec Hosterman is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. While there, he teaches courses in public relations campaigns, research, writing, and visual communication. But once he puts down the red grading pen, Alec picks up his camera for some well-deserved image therapy! Alec has been behind the lens for over 20 years, shooting anything from nature to landscapes, architecture to street. He also teaches photography courses for a local art studio. Alec lives with one spoiled dog, two vocal cats, and way too many cameras to count.

Links to Alec’s Work

www.alechosterman.com

www.instagram.com/alechosterman

www.twitter.com/alechosterman

Hit The Streets 149: What NOT to say at a photoshoot and much more with Jessica Sterling

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In this Episode…

Jessica Sterling is a portrait and event photographer based in LA. You will love her fun personality as she shares lots of useful tips that can apply to a wide range of photographic genres, including photographing celebrities.

Jessica’s Biography

Based in Los Angeles, Jessica has been specializing in corporate events, corporate portraits & branding photography since 2006. Some of the notable personalities she's photographed include Ashton Kutcher, Steven Spielberg, Hugh Jackman, Mark Wahlberg, Serena Williams & Justin Timberlake. Her work has been in Forbes, the Huffington Post, CNN, MTV, Fortune Magazine, Back Stage, Popular Science, Angeleno Magazine, Sports Business Journal & the Wall Street Journal.

Links to Jessica’s Work

http://www.jessicasterling.com

https://www.facebook.com/jessicasterlingphotography/

https://www.instagram.com/jessicasterlingphoto/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaiyhasS1e9pv0BcyZaCMsQ

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Hit The Streets 148: Transitions and more with Greg Turner

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In this Episode…

Today Valerie shares a conversation with Greg Turner, a photographer from the UK. They discuss two specific projects Greg completed in recent years and how projects often come to the photographer in the most unexpected ways.

Greg’s Biography

My work is driven by a combination of poetry and pragmatism. I take inspiration from a variety of places, in particular Diane Arbus, Joel Sternfeld, Richard Renaldi, Rineke Dijkstra and Laura Panack, from Avedon’s ‘In The American West’ series as well as the Italian Neo-Realist cinema movement.

I work primarily outside in the street, in parks and on the beach, in between meetings, while on business trips or if I have a spare 40 minutes at the end of the day. As a result, my work tends towards spontaneity and serendipity. I photograph people as they are in the moment I find them. Sometimes the connections are brief, sometimes they develop and flourish, but they are all bound and connected by the place and time in which they occur. 

This connection with place and time is central to my work. It is a means by which to both pragmatically structure my activity around family life, and poetically explore the ideas that are important to me. By locating a subject in a specific place and time, I have the chance to ask, ‘what brought you here to me, what ties you to this moment, where have you come from and where are you going?’ In asking these questions I hope to make a more meaningful connection with an otherwise detached stranger and thereby learn something more profound about them and the nature of our humanity. 

My focus is the humanity of the person in front of the camera; community, gender identity, sexuality, transition, conformity and vulnerability are all prevalent motifs in my work, but it is this last phenomenon, our vulnerability, that interests me most. It is when we are at our most vulnerable that our humanity is most readily evident; it is in our collective vulnerability that all our humanity lies.

Links to Greg’s Work

www.tearsinrain.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/geetee1972/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geetee1972/

Examples of Greg’s Work

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Hit The Streets 147: Q&A with Doug Kaye

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In this Episode…

In this new Q&A segment, Valerie invites Doug Kaye to help answer a listener questions about their workflow, rate of keepers and workshop expectations. They announce the winners of the latest photo challenge and announce a new one.

Guest Co-Host Doug Kaye

Beginning his visual explorations in his father's wet darkroom, Doug earned a degree in theatrical lighting design at U.C. Berkeley in the '60s and studied cinematography at NYU's Graduate Institute of Film and Television in the '70s. In the '80s he began a two-decade hiatus from still photography, then got into digital in 2008. A trip to Kenya convinced him nature photography wasn't for him, and Iceland cured him of his interest in landscape. For the past four years, Doug has focused almost exclusively on street photography, including shooting film (even medium and large format) much of the time. Doug teaches photography locally in San Francisco and online. He leads street-photography workshops in Cuba, which he has visited eight times, and locally in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-host and producer of the CameraLabs Cafe gear-review podcast with Gordon Laing.

Links to Doug’s Work

DougKaye.com

Facebook

Flickr

Instagram

And the Winner Is…

The winner of the BACK contest is Michael Assmann and Chris. They will receive ebook of their choice from our friends are RockyNook!

Doug's fave: a picture by Michael Assmann
instagram @michaelassmannphotography

Valerie's fave: a picture by Chris

Next Photo Challenge

Environmental portrait with a short story

To participate upload 1 photo in the comment section below by December 12th.

Guest book pic

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Hit The Streets 146: SixPick with Achim Katzberg

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In this Episode…

Achim and Valérie discuss the importance of always working on photography projects.

Achim’s Biography

I was born and raised in 1965 in Zweibrücken. Since the early 90s I have been working in the Rhein Main Region and now live in Mainz.
Since my early youth, I have been taking photos with analog cameras. Even though I collected some experience with analog image editing in my own laboratory.
After a work related break as an artist, since the turn of the century, I am shooting with digital cameras. Going digital the black and white lab has been replaced by Lightroom and – in some exceptions only – Photoshop.
I am now working as a professional photographer specialized in weddings, events and architecture photography as well as street and documentary photography.

Being specialized in architecture and documentary photography as well as weddings and events in Mainz and the Rhein-Main Region, street photography is a kind of uncommissioned, free program for me.
Street photography allows me to reflect my great love for people and life in general, as well as my fascination for architecture and design. I love to show people in the urban environment in strong compositions, preferring minimalistic urban graphics.

Links to Achim’s Work

Homepage (street section): https://querformat-fotografie.de/en/galerien/?filter=street

Instagram (relevant re SIXPICKs): https://www.instagram.com/achim_katzberg/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/querformat.fotografie/

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Hit The Streets 145: Finding Robert Capa with Charlie Maguire

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In this Episode…

In this episode Valerie interviews her good friend and song writer Charlie Maguire who recently travelled to Iowa to document Robert Capa's work documenting life on a farm that no one knows about. This episode is a real treat and there is a bonus song at the end. Don't miss it!

Charlie’s Biography

Photo by Cheryl Walsh Bellville

Called “A legend in the Midwest” by the Winnipeg Folk Festival; a performer “Who can sing, really sing” by Diane Sawyer of ABC-TV; and whose songs are “Damn good and so are you” by Pete Seeger; Charlie Maguire may be as much in the tradition of photographer Robert Capa, as his own musical roots in the Woody Guthrie tradition. Capa said, “If your pictures are not good enough, you are not close enough.” Guthrie described his songwriting as being like “A photographer without a camera.” Like Capa and Guthrie, Charlie Maguire uses the same close-up methods for his subjects when he writes songs about them.

Charlie has written songs about migrant labor as a VISTA volunteer, and the alienation of old age in his life-long work with elders. He has sailed the Great Lakes mirroring the job of a Third Mate on the bridges of huge grain and iron ore carriers well as an “ordinary seaman” on the slippery decks of a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker. Both of these opportunities brought a fresh look at the conditions of modern working life on the U.S. Great Lakes. He has donned the uniform of the U.S. National Park Service ranger as the first and only “Singing Ranger” in the history of the service, training in the Grand Canyon and subsequently writing 24 award-winning songs about the Mississippi River. His work with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as “Centennial Troubadour” was so compelling it raised the awareness of women actually gainfully employed in conservation as far back as 1903. That research and writing led in part to the construction of the Mary Gibbs Headwaters Visitor Center at Itasca State Park, honoring Ms. Gibbs, as the first woman park manager in the history of the United States.

Maguire is a native of upstate New York, and was mentored by Seeger, Lee Hays, and Marjorie Guthrie. His eyes and ears for a good story rest in his belief that songs containing real drama experienced close up, whether tragic or uplifting, not only inspire the listener but have a power to change — as well as comfort and heal people. Recently as an artist-in-residence contractor at the Minnesota Veterans Home, Charlie’s way of using music and photography to forge answers to social problems, recently led to an award-winning suicide prevention program for U.S. Veterans and returned military personnel. Since it’s inception there three years ago, “OSS: Operation Sight And Sound” has had a zero suicide rate for those veterans involved in the program that practices songwriting, and photography in service to the greater community. 

Links to Charlie’s Work

Web: https://www.charliemaguire.com/

Instagram: charlie_studio-california

FB: Charlie Maguire

Twitter: @mellojam

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/robert-capa/

http://www.cityofcarroll.com/carroll-county-historical-society

Photos from the Iowa Trip

Hit The Streets 144: Case Study 8: Two Years Later with Jimmy Lee

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In this Episode…

If you’ve been listening to Hit The Streets since the beginning, you may remember Jimmy who was my guest in Episode 44 titled Turning a Negative into a Positive.
After losing his job, Jimmy decided to start making a difference in his community by using his camera. Two years later he is now making a living with his photography and gives us an account of his journey.

Jimmy’s Biography

Jimmy started out as a street photographer/documentary photographer but due to circumstances he is now a full time freelance photographer. 

He has transferred his passion and eye for street to commercial work such as events, weddings & various commissions.

 His years working in construction have given him the knowledge to create images and document ongoing works for various construction companies around the UK.

In his short time as a photographer he has been heavily involved in the community where he has always lived in East London, this has unintentionally opened many doors and given him some great opportunities to work with great people, including the chance to mount 3 exhibitions.

 One was a street photography exhibition which was visited by the legendary David Bailey and his most recent exhibition consists of images he has made while documenting a local care home mostly of people with dementia, he aims to show there is still a quality of life to be had even with this terrible disease, the images are displayed around the home to allow the relatives to see those brief smiles and moments that their loved ones still have at times.

He was on the street hunters list of street photographers to watch for 2017, he was also shortlisted down to the last 10 of 3000 for London Live news competition. 

His goal for the future is to carry on with some large scale photography projects & combining his street style with his commercial work to give his images for clients a different feel.

Links to Jimmy’s Work

Website - Instagram - Twitter

Hit The Streets 143: Q&A & Photo Challenge

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In this Episode…

In this episode of Hit The Streets, Valérie has invited another Valérie to guest co-host. Together they answer questions about Instagram and the many challenges of Street Photography. They also announce the winner of the last photo challenge and announce a new one.

Guest Co-Host Valérie Vaillant

Valérie Vaillant started street photography quite recently and has participated in a few workshops with Valérie Jardin. She lives in Angers, in the Loire Valley of France and works frequently in Paris where she practices her street photography skills as often as she can.

Links to Valérie Vaillant’s Work

Instagram: @frenchy_val_

And the Winner Is…

© Aixa

Winner of the THROUGH A WINDOW contest is Aixa.

Link to her work: @moodandmystery

She will receive a soft release button from our friends at AF Shoots.

Next Photo Challenge

Photograph people from the BACK, listen to the many tips in the show and upload 1 photo in comment section below. Two winners will receive an ebook of their choice from Rockynook.com.
Deadline: Oct. 3

Guest’s Book Pick